HPE says it was hacked by nation-state actor Midnight Blizzard

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. stated Wednesday {that a} suspected nation-state actor hacked its cloud-based e-mail system.

The group is “believed to be the threat actor Midnight Blizzard, the state-sponsored actor also known as Cozy Bear,” HPE
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stated in a regulatory submitting.

Last week, Microsoft Corp.
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stated the identical group gained entry to its community and accessed “a very small percentage of Microsoft corporate email accounts.”

Both firms decided the cyber-intrusions didn’t materially impression operations.

“The accessed data is limited to information contained in the users’ mailboxes. We continue to investigate and will make appropriate notifications as required,” an HPE spokesperson stated in an e-mail to MarketWatch.

Source web site: www.marketwatch.com

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